Palm has just announced the release of the Treo 755p for Verizon Wireless. The device is pretty much identical to the one being offered on Sprint, including the traditional PalmOS, a slimmer form factor, 320×320 TFT 65k touchscreen, Bluetooth 1.2 and IR, and 128MB of memory. On the software side, Palm is including Treo Voice Dialing, which includes the ability to launch an application and initiate a text or e-mail message all via voice, Google Maps for Mobile and Microsoft’s Direct Push Technology for pushing Outlook over-the-air to and from your device.

As of this writing there’s no word on availability for the Verizon Wireless network.

{ad}I was waiting for something a bit more exciting from Palm. After all, the company just announced that it had reduced the size of its workforce again, so they really can’t afford to not announce something HUGE.

Is this big news? It depends on who you talk to. I loved the Centro, which was the same old Palm, with some enhancements and a new form factor, so this one brings Microsoft’s Direct Push, which the corporate folks will love, some voice dialing and Google Maps. It’s the same offering that we reviewed on Sprint’s network and unfortunately, there’s no built-in GPS and there’s no word on whether this version of Google Maps for Mobile includes the new My Location feature, which shows you where you are even without a GPS integrated. Given that, are people going to be excited about another PalmOS-based device hitting Verizon’s network?

Reader Comments

dalspartan

After two years of screwing around with Microsoft’s mobile phones, I’m ready to go back to Palm. It works. MS seems to forget itself occasionally, and I have to go through setup all over again. I purchased a third party software to sync my Lotus Notes stuff, and even though it’s written for Mobile 6, somewhere somebody forgot to tell Activesync. I’m really tired of it all. I’m not IT, so I don’t know how, and don’t want to know how to make it work, I just want to enhance communications with customers.